Solved Error code2 for git during its update

Charlie Brown · May 3, 2026

I'm stuck at git for quite some time now it refuses to update and nothing does to remedy to that situation.

I have tried to update the ports, to reinstall it and also cleaned all ports, but I have to same error

Code:

gmake[1]: Entering directory '/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0'
gmake[1]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0'
GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="" GIT_DATE="" GIT_USER_AGENT="" GIT_VERSION="" /bin/sh ""/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/subtree/../.."/GIT-VERSION-GEN" ""/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/subtree/../.."" "../../Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in" "asciidoctor-extensions.rb"
asciidoctor -b docbook -d manpage  \
        -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions -alitdd='&#x2d;&#x2d;' git-subtree.adoc
gmake: asciidoctor: No such file or directory
gmake: *** [Makefile:87: git-subtree.xml] Error 127
*** Error code 2

diizzy · May 3, 2026

Code:

rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work && rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work-*
cd /usr/ports/devel/git && make install clean clean-depends

Charlie Brown · May 3, 2026

diizzy said:

Thanks for that, but unfortunately that didn't work same error message.

diizzy · May 4, 2026

In that case something in your tree / install is broken if it can't find asciidoctor or determine that it's not installed.

Charlie Brown · May 4, 2026

diizzy said:
In that case something in your tree / install is broken if it can't find asciidoctor or determine that it's not installed.

how should I fix this? asciidoctor is indeed installed.

SirDice · May 4, 2026

Look further up in the logging, I don't think it's asciidoctor that's missing, it's the file it tries to parse that's missing.

cracauer@ · May 4, 2026

I think it is asciidoctor the program itself that is missing. It is gmake complaining, not asciidoctor.

Charlie Brown · Tuesday at 9:15 PM

cracauer@ said:
I think it is asciidoctor the program itself that is missing. It is gmake complaining, not asciidoctor.

whereis asciidoctor
asciidoctor: /usr/local/bin/asciidoctor
why is it gmake that is used to build git ?

Charlie Brown · Tuesday at 10:43 PM

SirDice said:
Look further up in the logging, I don't think it's asciidoctor that's missing, it's the file it tries to parse that's missing.

I reviewed the entire output for the build and the only place where I see something is there :

Code:

===> Installing contributed scripts
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/share/git-core/contrib
/bin/rm -f /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/credential/netrc/test.netrc.gpg
cp -f -R /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/* /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/share/git-core/contrib
/bin/rm -f /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/htmldocs/index.html
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/share/doc/git
(cd /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/htmldocs/ && /bin/sh -c '(/usr/bin/find -Ed $1 $3 | /usr/bin/cpio -dumpl $2 >/dev/null 2>&1) &&  /usr/bin/find -Ed $1 $3 \(   -type d -exec /bin/sh -c '\''cd '\''$2'\'' && chmod 755 "$@"'\'' . {} +  -o -type f -exec /bin/sh -c '\''cd '\''$2'\'' && chmod 0644 "$@"'\'' . {} + \)' COPYTREE_SHARE . /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/share/doc/git)
/bin/ln -s git.html /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/share/doc/git/index.html
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/etc/git
install  -m 0644 /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/gitweb.conf  /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/etc/git/gitweb.conf.sample
cd /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/Documentation && /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  MACHINE_ARCH=amd64  PWD="${PWD}"  GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  __MAKE_CONF=/nonexistent OSVERSION=1500068 PATH=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.bin:/root/.local/bin:/home/free/.local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/free/bin:/home/free/bin/julia-1.11.6/bin:/home/free/.juliaup/bin TERM=xterm-256color DEFAULT_AUTOCONF=2.73 V=1 CURLDIR=/usr/local OPENSSLBASE=/usr/local OPENSSLDIR=/usr/local/openssl OPENSSLINC=/usr/local/include OPENSSLLIB=/usr/local/lib OPENSSLRPATH=/usr/local/lib PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  XDG_CACHE_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.cache  HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default PATH=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.bin:/root/.local/bin:/home/free/.local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/free/bin:/home/free/bin/julia-1.11.6/bin:/home/free/.juliaup/bin PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.pkgconfig:/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig MK_DEBUG_FILES=no MK_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=no SHELL=/bin/sh NO_LINT=YES DEFAULT_AUTOCONF=2.73 PREFIX=/usr/local  LOCALBASE=/usr/local  CC="cc" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe  -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing "  CPP="cpp" CPPFLAGS="-isystem/usr/local/include -DLIBICONV_PLUG"  LDFLAGS=" -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib " LIBS=""  CXX="c++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing   -DLIBICONV_PLUG " BSD_INSTALL_PROGRAM="install  -s -m 555"  BSD_INSTALL_LIB="install  -s -m 0644"  BSD_INSTALL_SCRIPT="install  -m 555"  BSD_INSTALL_DATA="install  -m 0644"  BSD_INSTALL_MAN="install  -m 444"  /usr/local/bin/gmake -f Makefile USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=1  DEVELOPER= NO_TCLTK=yes DESTDIR=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage asciidoctor-extensions.rb
/bin/sh ./generate-mergetool-list.sh .. diff mergetools-diff.adoc
/bin/sh ./generate-mergetool-list.sh .. merge mergetools-merge.adoc
/bin/sh ./cmd-list.sh .. . cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.adoc cmds-ancillarymanipulators.adoc cmds-mainporcelain.adoc cmds-plumbinginterrogators.adoc cmds-plumbingmanipulators.adoc cmds-synchingrepositories.adoc cmds-synchelpers.adoc cmds-guide.adoc cmds-developerinterfaces.adoc cmds-userinterfaces.adoc cmds-purehelpers.adoc cmds-foreignscminterface.adoc && \
date >cmd-list.made
/usr/local/bin/perl ./build-docdep.perl "/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/Documentation" >doc.dep
GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="" GIT_DATE="" GIT_USER_AGENT="" GIT_VERSION="" /bin/sh ""/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/Documentation/.."/GIT-VERSION-GEN" ""/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/Documentation/.."" "asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in" "asciidoctor-extensions.rb"
cd /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/subtree && /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  MACHINE_ARCH=amd64  PWD="${PWD}"  GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  __MAKE_CONF=/nonexistent OSVERSION=1500068 PATH=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.bin:/root/.local/bin:/home/free/.local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/free/bin:/home/free/bin/julia-1.11.6/bin:/home/free/.juliaup/bin TERM=xterm-256color DEFAULT_AUTOCONF=2.73 V=1 CURLDIR=/usr/local OPENSSLBASE=/usr/local OPENSSLDIR=/usr/local/openssl OPENSSLINC=/usr/local/include OPENSSLLIB=/usr/local/lib OPENSSLRPATH=/usr/local/lib PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default  XDG_CACHE_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.cache  HOME=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default PATH=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.bin:/root/.local/bin:/home/free/.local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/free/bin:/home/free/bin/julia-1.11.6/bin:/home/free/.juliaup/bin PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.pkgconfig:/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig MK_DEBUG_FILES=no MK_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=no SHELL=/bin/sh NO_LINT=YES DEFAULT_AUTOCONF=2.73 PREFIX=/usr/local  LOCALBASE=/usr/local  CC="cc" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe  -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing "  CPP="cpp" CPPFLAGS="-isystem/usr/local/include -DLIBICONV_PLUG"  LDFLAGS=" -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib " LIBS=""  CXX="c++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing   -DLIBICONV_PLUG " BSD_INSTALL_PROGRAM="install  -s -m 555"  BSD_INSTALL_LIB="install  -s -m 0644"  BSD_INSTALL_SCRIPT="install  -m 555"  BSD_INSTALL_DATA="install  -m 0644"  BSD_INSTALL_MAN="install  -m 444"  /usr/local/bin/gmake -f Makefile USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=1  DEVELOPER= NO_TCLTK=yes DESTDIR=/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage install install-doc
sed -e '1s|#!.*/sh|#!/bin/sh|' git-subtree.sh >git-subtree
chmod +x git-subtree
install -d -m 755 /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/libexec/git-core
install -m 755 git-subtree /usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/stage/usr/local/libexec/git-core
/usr/local/bin/gmake -C ../../ GIT-VERSION-FILE
gmake[1]: Entering directory '/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0'
gmake[1]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0'
GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT="" GIT_DATE="" GIT_USER_AGENT="" GIT_VERSION="" /bin/sh ""/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/subtree/../.."/GIT-VERSION-GEN" ""/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/git-2.54.0/contrib/subtree/../.."" "../../Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in" "asciidoctor-extensions.rb"
asciidoctor -b docbook -d manpage  \
        -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions -alitdd='&#x2d;&#x2d;' git-subtree.adoc
gmake: asciidoctor: No such file or directory
gmake: *** [Makefile:87: git-subtree.xml] Error 127
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/devel/git/work-default/.install_done.git._usr_local" in /usr/ports/devel/git
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "install clean clean-depends" in /usr/ports/devel/git

Before that everything seems fine it's a very long output !
If someone wants to see it : https://bin.disroot.org/?169fd34066ba82da#Hk7n1S2DwrqxfhdbFQKXs88xTnBLgLDBWAyW84NgMtnf

Charlie Brown · Thursday at 11:19 PM

I solved it. this particular package needed to be reinstall : https://www.freshports.org/textproc/rubygem-asciidoctor/
Thanks you all for the help, always appreciated. freebies!!

Solved Error code2 for git during its update

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